2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[heirloomgal]

What about a motion detection jet-spray of water?

LOL, whoops I just posted the same idea! They do sell them though!

 

[flowerbug]

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Motion activated sprinkler?

sea above...

 

[flowerbug]

at this point a motion activated meat grinder would be my preference...

 

[heirloomgal]

My sympathies are with you flowerbug, that must be hard. Before I became a gardener I lived in southern Ontario and had a friend that was a gardener. There was so many deer there it was near hopeless to garden, they were EVERYWHERE. And they seemed to like to eat near anything. I remember being in awe of her efforts despite the obstacles and she had no fences or anything to stop them. I am so grateful that I don't have deer! The pests I deal with seem a little less daunting!

 

[meadow]

i know, i want to put more fence up but Mom doesn't want more fence. so i'm stuck with less than perfect other methods.

i've put up a scarecrow and will put up some strange smells for them to see if that will hold them off for another night.

the large deer is not looking to being the one doing most of the eating it is the little hoof prints i'm seeing in the gardens. i will also put out more traps to see if they will step on them and startle them off. i was also thinking some poles with fishing line on them that will grab at them as they try to walk by which they won't be able to see. they may not like that at all. collapsible so it doesn't cause damage, but just something that happens to them that they're not used to having happen here. a stack of pop cans with the fishing line through it too so it falls over and makes noise. except i don't want to be waking up during any of this.

I think the fishing line has the possibility of causing unintentional harm if it were to get wrapped around some part of them. I'm thinking of my cat with his 'snakey' toy. He sometimes gets caught in it, but it's only soft fabric material so there is no harm done.

Would motion detection lights affect deer? It would be nice if you could get some random audio of people talking to just turn on suddenly. Maybe that would scare the heck out of them!

 

[heirloomgal]

I don't want to jinx myself, but the harvest for the Rotebeerbohne bush bean is looking promising!

Some of the semi-runners in their designated bed. Everything doing well in there. Quite a difference between the transplants and direct seeded plants. The Karachaganack beans that were transplants actually have full sized pods on them, speckled with purple. I'm tempted to try them, they look so tempting! But no, this lot is for seeds. The direct seeded ones have no pods yet (that I can see). Boy, the Tamila beans are a variety that always does so well for me. Plants are so vigorous. Fukuyuru Chanaga is another bean whose leaves and general growth is lush, and robust. Same with Wild Gonny, Ugandan Bantu and Ice. All very nice beans.

I've mounded the soil in a circle around each of the pole bean saplings to make a small well for watering those beans. When I water with a watering can I am able to pour directly into the well and can avoid the leaves entirely. It also doesn't get the surrounding soil wet, so weeds as of late have been very nil. I'm guessing I can get about 2.5 to 3 litres in each well when I water. I can see moisture on the soil surface for the next few days so it seems to be penetrating. I am noticing as the plants get bigger and bigger the wells are drying up faster though.

Eda: I meant 5 litres in each well

 

[jbosmith]

Motion activated sprinkler?

I have friends with a farm in the green triangle in Cali who have motion controlled paintball guns that shoot pepper spray balls. I don't think it's deer they're worried about but it might work

 

[Zeedman]

booger deer are eating my other garden now.
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motion detection pea shooter anyone?

Maybe a motion sensing light, if you can get power out there. Screwing an outlet into a socket, you can then plug in a variety of electric/electronic devices. I used that method once, when deer were visiting my apple trees every night (and munching on everything else while they were in the yard). DW was getting upset over all of her flowers being eaten. I tried motion sensing lights; but these are suburban deer, and quickly learned to ignore the lights. So I plugged a small motor into the light socket, which turned a pipe snake inside a piece of conduit under the trees... the sudden sound at their feet scared them away. That would probably be too loud for your purposes, @flowerbug; but a motor moving something quietly but quickly might serve the same purpose.

Or hook an ultrasonic sound source to the motion sensor, through an outdoor speaker? Neither your Mom nor your neighbors would hear it (although neighborhood dogs might ). Now that I have new fruit trees (and the deer are ravaging my neighbor's tree) I'm giving thought to trying that myself.

 

[flowerbug]

there sure are a lot of bean blooms coming out in the gardens now. another positive is that it is raining a little out there. i watered all the gardens this morning but skywater will be a bonus.

 

[heirloomgal]

It's funny, the beans that start out the most vigorous don't always wind up being the most vigorous ones by this time of year. Odd.